National Democratic Party (Hesse, 1945–1950)

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The National Democratic Party , also: National Democratic Party of Germany , or NDP for short , was a national-conservative Hessian party in the period after the Second World War .

history

The NDP was founded in October 1945 by Heinrich Leuchtgens and Heinrich Fassbender and initially only received a license for the Friedberg district . Later it was also licensed in other Hessian districts and was able to run for district elections in 1948 in ten (of 31) districts and independent cities in Hesse. There it received 3.4% nationwide, although it was not eligible for election in two thirds of the country due to a lack of licenses. In the run-up to the Bundestag election in 1949 there were negotiations with the DP and the DKP-DRP about a merger, but these ultimately failed because the British occupying power in particular declared that a merging party consisting of the DP, NDP and DKP-DRP would not receive a license in their area . Since the NDP itself had not received a state license from the American occupying power, it could not perform independently. She then concluded an electoral alliance with the FDP - which is emphatically right-wing in Hesse - into which Fassbender had already converted. Because of this alliance, the chairman of the NDP, Heinrich Leuchtgens, entered the German Bundestag .

On January 21, 1950, the NDP merged with the DKP-DRP to form the German Reich Party (DRP) after Leuchtgens had previously formed a joint parliamentary group with the five DKP-DRP members in the Bundestag. The more radical wing of the NDP under Karl-Heinz Priester then split off and from then on acted as the "National Democratic Party - Nationale Reichspartei", which at times acted as the regional association of the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) and at the end of 1950 was absorbed into the National Democratic Reich Party (NDRP) . After its disintegration in 1951, the Young Party followed (without a priest) .

Chairperson

The only chairman in the almost five-year history of the party was Heinrich Leuchtgens .

Actions

On June 21, 1950, the NDP ("National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationale Reichspartei) eV" - the split-off priest) had invited to a rally at the Niederwald Monument, the speaker was to be Karl-Heinz Priest . The planned rally was forbidden by order of the Hessian Minister of the Interior of June 15, 1950, as it represented a violation of the idea of ​​international understanding and peaceful coexistence - with reference to Art. 9 and Art. 26 of the Basic Law and other legal provisions. The NDP took legal action against this prohibition, with reference to Article 14 of the Hessian Constitution, the fundamental right to freedom of assembly . This fundamental rights lawsuit was rejected by the Hessian State Court on August 4, 1950, with arguments similar to those in the order of the Hessian Minister of the Interior.

literature

  • Horst W. Schmollinger: The National Democratic Party. In: Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party Handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-531-11592-8 , pp. 1892-1921.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hessischer Staatsgerichtshof: Fundamental rights action of the National Democratic Party of Germany. In: Supplement No. 8 to the “State Gazette for the State of Hesse” No. 41 of October 14, 1950. August 4, 1950.
  2. ^ Constitution of the state executive of the National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationale Reichspartei), January 29, 1950. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger, Richard Stöss: The parties and the press of the parties and trade unions. Verlag Documentation Saur, Munich 1975, p. 192.
  4. ^ Kurt P. Tauber: Beyond Eagle and Swastika. Weslyan University Press, Middletown / Connecticut 1967, Volume I p. 175f., Volume II p. 1059f.